CONSTRUCTION work on Staffin’s long-awaited housing, health and business development could commence in the summer of 2019.

A total of seven affordable houses, a new medical surgery and business space will be built on Stenscholl common grazings, close to the primary school.

Staffin Community Trust (SCT) is hopeful that the legal process currently underway to purchase the site and remove it from crofting tenure will be completed and the land in its ownership early in the new year.

Highland Council granted planning permission last March and the Scottish Land Fund subsequently awarded a ...

THE STAFFIN community and visitors are warmly invited to offer their views on the proposals for upgraded signage for the Skye Ecomuseum over the next two days.

Design firm, Lateral North, will be on hand with Staffin Community Trust to show the plans for the ecomuseum.

The ecomuseum is an outdoor museum with ‘no walls and a roofless sky’ and includes a footpath network across the district. Interpretation illustrates the story of each area in the district and focuses on the heritage and landscape, ...

A NEW TV series featuring a raft of local people from Trotternish is broadcast tonight (Tuesday) on BBC Alba.

‘An t-Eilean/From Skye With Love’ is the latest in a popular series which has followed the lives of Gaels across the West Highlands and Islands. Well kent faces from Staffin will be on screen in the seven-part series which starts at 8.30pm.

The production company who followed the lives of residents going about their daily lives in the peninsula for more than a year ...

STAFFIN’S new viewing platform at Lealt Gorge, which is a key attraction in a major community-led heritage development, is now open to the public.

The timber and steel walkway is the first structure of this type in Skye and provides heightened views of two waterfalls, the Trotternish Ridge and across to Wester Ross. It represents a significant infrastructure investment secured by the local community in north-east Trotternish. A new car park and paths have also been built at Lealt and comes as ...

CONTRACTORS have suspended work at the new Staffin viewing platform today (14.6.18) because of the high winds and wet ground.

The weather front, officially named “Storm Hector”, saw heavy rain and higher winds blow into Skye after more than three weeks of largely dry and sunny conditions. However, the public is reminded the site at Lealt remains closed to the public and walkers should not attempt to access the construction site, car park or main footpath.